The Pushcart War – a review by Amory Gunter

The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill

**** stars

In New York city on March 15, 1976 thats when the pushcart war started. The trucker ran over a cart belonging to a flowser peddler. All the push cart around New York city made a group called the Pea-Shooter Capaign. The group shot sharp objects out of a straw at the trucker tries. Than war between both groups started to get worse, and had to bring in the police and the mayor. The mayor was protecting the trukers, and wanted the pushcart gone. The pushcart war goes so wrong; wich the rest you have to find out but the truckers takes the war to far and end up kiddaping to hostaging peoples.

My opion about this book, I give it a 4 star because it may be an old book but it has a story line to it. This book is more like a freshman book, not teen, but I found it in the high school library.I like how the pushcar people and the truckers did not like each other. The truckers would some times try to run down the push cart with there simi truck. The push cart people would bounce back by shooting the truckers tire. The push cart people would have to defeat the truckers and the mayor in order to sustane there business. If this was true story, I think it would be cool if this really happen, but not push carts being ran over by truckers and stuff.